On 9-Jul-2005, Jonathan Goodish wrote:

The bottom line is that you pay a good bit of money for a certified
receiver that to pair with a certified GPS that is unable to display
most of the available weather products. Both the Garmin 396 handheld
and the various PDA/TabletPC solutions provide more bang for the buck
for weather uplink in this scenario.


Please correct me if I am wrong, but I do not believe that the FAA has any
certification criteria -- or requirements -- for use of weather avoidance
equipment in IFR flight. Certainly there is no "slash suffix" (e.g. "/G"
indicates GPS capability) to indicate weather avoidance gear on the IFR
flight plan. So it really doesn't matter whether the GPS providing input
for display of weather info is certified or not.
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-Elliott Drucker